Hi Tim

You were right, it works fine, and the reverb sounds great. I was
thrown a bit, because it was unexpected. Enport does indeed know what
they're talking about, and I'm glad they make cool stuff like this
available in the U.S.

To try to get this back on topic: do any of you A199 owners have any
interesting reverb patch suggestions I'm a bit ingorant in this area.
I've been experimenting with using a A130 VCA with a release envelope
to control reverb decay time. That's working out quite well, I got
some nice tight reberb sounds.

I've also been EQ'ing the reverb tail, but I wonder how it would sound
through the A121 filter in lowpass or bandpass mode. Has anyone tried
this using filter modulation

I'd like to try some gated reverb for percussive sounds. Does anyone
know how to make a gate patch with A100 modules

Joe

--- In Doepfer_a100@y..., Stinchcombe Timothy <tstinchcombe@q...>
wrote:

> > Sorry for going off topic. I just got the HDB tube spring reverb

to

> > use with my A100. Unfortunately, it came with a 230V P/S and
> > plug, and
> > a note from Enport saying "Needs step up transformer from Radio
> > Shack."
> >
> > I guess I can live with this, but will the electronics
> > experts tell me
> > if it will be okay, or will the transformer spray 60Hz all over my
> > audio path or cause other nasty problems
>
> Hi Joe,
> Not knowing much about this area (and I certainly don't think

I qualify as 'expert' in other areas anyway!), I discussed this with
my office colleague (who has much wider experience than me), and we
doubt you'll have a problem. From the low voltage DC point-of-view,
the smoothing done by the PS is likely to be better at 60Hz than it is
at 50Hz. Neither of us knows much about valves, but doubt there are
any issues here, especially since Enport haven't made an issue of it,
and also since (from HDB's website) HDB market it as 'professional',
one must assume Enport know what they are doing! Our guess is that, if
you get any mains hum, then it would probably be present if operating
at 50Hz as well, rather than the fact that you are running it at 60.
Not really sure if any of this helps or not!

>
> Tim
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